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Malden and Coombe 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe]

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There was a decrease in the number of new notifications
and there was also a fall in the death rate from
tuberculosis. These figures fluctuate a good deal from
year to year, but there has been no significant change
during the past ten years.
As early ascertainment and notification is of great
importance in the prevention and cure of tuberculosis,
the number of cases dying un-notified is an important
index of the extent of our awareness of the disease. A
certain number of cases will always defy diagnosis before
death and in the present year there were only two
such cases. There was no instance of failure on the part
of the doctor to notify.
The facilities for chest X-ray examination offered by
arrangement with the Kingston Victoria Hospital were
made use of in nine cases.

Table: At the end of the year the following number of cases was shown to be suffering from the disease and living in the district, an increase of twenty-three cases compared with the previous year:—

At the end of the year the following number of cases was shown to be suffering from the disease and living in the district, an increase of twenty-three cases compared with the previous year:—

Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.
Males7818
Females6226

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Old standing cases moving into the district are, of
course, added to the register in the same way as new
cases.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF
TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1925.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936, SECTION 172.
It has not been found necessary to take any formal
action under the above Regulations or Act. The first
relates to persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis
employed in the milk trade, and the latter gives power to
a Council to apply for an order for the compulsory
removal to Hospital of a person suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis, if certain conditions obtain so that serious
risk of infection is thereby caused to other persons.